Best CD to Listen to when Writing

[kristen999]

Ask the NoCal turntable nerds, the trip-hoppers, the frat boys, the hippies or the ravers: Endtroducing DJ Shadow is deeply spiritual. Not in the conventional sense, but in the spirituality of the soul that lives in your chest and got there from the ether and returns to the collective unconscious-- the one you feel when you feel things. That's the spirit that saves us from being fleeting and disposable.

Endtroducing taps that inner-whatever better than most of the albums of its day, and it swims so easily that it established an entire genre of instrumental hip-hop-- count how many records come out every month and are dubbed "Shadowesque." Building the album from samples of lost funk classics and bad horror soundtracks, Shadow crossed the real with the ethereal, laying heavy, sure-handed beats under drifting, staticky textures, friendly ghost voices, and chords whose sustain evokes the vast hereafter. Even the "look at me" cuts like "The Number Song" didn't break the mood; the album was so perfect and the technique, so awesome that it's still definitive today, and Shadow has yet to top it.

http://pitchfork.com/reviews/albums/2377-endtroducing-deluxe-edition/

For me, this is the best music to write to. The CD is a classic. Give it a try. It puts me in a great head space, I'm not distracted, but I'm tapped into this mellow groove to keep my fingers taping the keyboard.

Comments

[kristen999.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, soundscapes 'sounds' very interesting. :D I love to the chill station on XM radio as well. I'm not sure if you plan on listening to all nine parts of "Entroducing DJ Shadow" on youtube, but the it's a double CD and really worth getting.

:D

[black-raven135.livejournal.com]

YES it is just marvelous. I often use it just for overall sound in the house, but LOVE it when I am online. My computer is in the den where the tv is located.
I love their evening array of music and it is good for reading or just for doing internet or emails etc.
I stumbled across it quite by accident on New Years Day 2008 and have been hooked ever since.
I plan to listen to all of Entroducing DJ Shadow...............
Thanks again for posting it.
:-)